{"conversationCode":"431-003","tapeNumber":431,"conversationNumber":3,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-431-003","startDateTime":"1973-04-26T18:15:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-04-26T18:17:00.000Z","startDate":"26-Apr-1973","startTime":"1:15 PM","endDate":"26-Apr-1973","endTime":"1:17 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Cox, Tricia Nixon;","description":"On April 26, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:15 pm to 1:17 pm. 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(President)","Cox, Tricia Nixon"],"prevCode":"431-002","nextCode":"431-004","transcript":[{"start":0.34,"end":13.87,"text":"Trish, I think, I wonder if you would tell my dad, Julia asked about whether or she didn't want to go."},{"start":15.17,"end":22.24,"text":"When they get back from shopping, tell them if you all want to go."},{"start":22.26,"end":22.9,"text":"You see, I work at Birch anyway."},{"start":22.92,"end":23.24,"text":"I work at Birch."},{"start":23.26,"end":25.44,"text":"And it's just, I don't want to get into her realization."},{"start":25.46,"end":25.82,"text":"I think it's fine."},{"start":25.84,"end":26.6,"text":"I'm telling them we should all go."},{"start":26.62,"end":27.95,"text":"And we will not go"},{"start":29.51,"end":37.99,"text":"Saturday noon, because I have a meeting."},{"start":38.03,"end":40.31,"text":"The others can go early, but I can't go until Saturday noon."},{"start":40.33,"end":42.52,"text":"But maybe you and Tommy and the rest should wrap up Friday."},{"start":42.53,"end":49.77,"text":"We have a reception for the Secretary of the Interior in Mississippi."},{"start":49.79,"end":50.73,"text":"So if you want to get to it, it's Friday night."},{"start":50.75,"end":51.35,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":52.36,"end":65.32,"text":"Just to be sure it's Julia, because I sent a message over to Julia on occasion, and I thought maybe it would be better for her and you and my people to go up to Camp David and shoot, you know, and so forth."},{"start":65.34,"end":70.58,"text":"But then it looked like, it looked funny to me, and what the hell, and I said, well, I'll leave you two up there, and hang on."},{"start":70.61,"end":75.69,"text":"I mean, not that that's bad, but right now people are watching when we do it."},{"start":75.71,"end":77.39,"text":"So we'll all go to Camp David."},{"start":77.41,"end":78.32,"text":"I'll be there Saturday."},{"start":78.34,"end":79.4,"text":"It's about to be..."},{"start":79.38,"end":104.61,"text":"What time did they have to go back?"},{"start":108.01,"end":108.11,"text":"Okay."},{"start":108.13,"end":108.27,"text":"Movies?"},{"start":114.36,"end":126.55,"text":"Yeah, that's better."},{"start":128.11,"end":128.43,"text":"Good."},{"start":128.95,"end":129.31,"text":"Alright."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and his daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, coordinate family travel plans to Camp David while acknowledging the heightened public scrutiny surrounding their movements. 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